Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will attend the annual Shangri-La Dialogue this week in Singapore, where he is scheduled to deliver a speech and meet with defense leaders from across Southeast Asia, the Pentagon announced.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered sweeping changes to the military’s household goods moving system, citing ongoing frustration among service members with a newly instituted contracting system.

The Air Force has deployed F-15 fighter jets for a force protection mission on Diego Garcia, Pacific Air Forces confirmed this week. The strategically important island in the Indian Ocean has served as a base for U.S. bombers during the Pentagon’s airstrikes on Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen that began earlier this year.

The Army is proposing to lease vastly less acreage from the state of Hawaii at three training areas on Oahu, forgoing leasing entirely at two sites, according to a final environmental impact statement released Friday.

The U.S. Navy and Pearl Harbor National Memorial will begin work next week to permanently remove a pair of dilapidated platforms that were connected to the USS Arizona during salvage operations following its sinking in the 1941 Japanese surprise attack.

Today, the Army’s three multi-domain task forces — with two more in the works — may be the most tangible result of Navy Adm. Harry Harris’ charge.

U.S. Army Pacific’s firepower, along with Army know-how in logistics and sustainment, are key to deterring and countering military aggression by China in the Indo-Pacific, Adm. Samuel Paparo said Tuesday in the keynote speech at the annual three-day Land Forces Pacific symposium on Waikiki Beach.

The Hawaii-based 25th Infantry Division will join Philippine army forces this summer for an exercise involving a massive movement of troops and equipment over 250 miles by air, sea and land, according to the division commander.

A federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday awarded nearly $600,000 to 17 plaintiffs who sued the U.S. government after being sickened by jet fuel-contaminated water on Oahu in late 2021 — a fraction of the $7 million they had sought. 

Nearly 80 years after a devastating fire tore through a Japanese military prison during World War II, a Defense Department agency is working to identify American prisoners of war who died in the blaze.